John Spratt News

Biden honored U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-Columbia, for his 20 years in Congress while praising the other heroes of the party’s past, including former Gov.

President Barack Obama intends to nominate Rep. Melvin Watt of Charlotte to head the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the government regulator that oversees lending giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, according to the White House.

Sponsored legislation that created the Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage and the S.C. Heritage corridors, designating 240 miles – from Oconee County to Charleston – as a National Heritage Area and millions to pay for its development.

Instead of waving the Democratic flag, the Charleston resident and a director of business development for a Clemson institute calls herself a fiscal conservative and a Southern Democrat.